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Games like Space Empires: Starfury

If Space Empires: Starfury is your kind of game, the closest matches are Galaxor, Swarm Queen and IFO — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Space Empires: Starfury: In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.

2020ActionStrategy9.99 USDWindowsby Malfador Machinations
Space Empires: Starfury — Steam game cover

Players who liked Space Empires: Starfury also play

Steam players who put hours into Space Empires: Starfury also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Galaxor

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Space Empires: Starfury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Galaxor is an online sci-fi strategy game where you build planets, research technologies, command fleets and expand your empire across the galaxy. Manage resources, join clans, take part in events and face alien threats in long-term space warfare.

    StrategySimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  2. Swarm Queen

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Space Empires: Starfury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDSteam ↗
  3. IFO

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Space Empires: Starfury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    A spaceship simulator for aliens, an ever-changing rule discovery puzzle for humans.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Void Destroyer 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Space Empires: Starfury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Galactic Ruler

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Space Empires: Starfury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Interstellaria

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Space Empires: Starfury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Aliens: Dark Descent

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Space Empires: Starfury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.

    2023ActionStrategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. BattleGroupVR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Space Empires: Starfury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.

    2023ActionStrategySimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Empires: Starfury at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Space Empires: Starfury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Space Empires: Starfury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Space Empires: Starfury on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Space Empires: Starfury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Space Empires: Starfury on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Space Empires: Starfury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Space Empires: Starfury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Space Empires: Starfury on Steam right now. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Aircar

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. South Scrimshaw, Part One

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.

    2023IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Malfador Machinations

Other recommendable Steam games by Malfador Machinations, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Space Empires V

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires: Starfury. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.

    2006Strategy3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Space Empires IV Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires: Starfury. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.

    2006Strategy3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Space Empires I

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires: Starfury. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.

    2020Strategy1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Space Empires II

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires: Starfury. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.

    2020Strategy2.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Space Empires III

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires: Starfury. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.

    2020Strategy3.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Space Empires: Starfury

How much does Space Empires: Starfury cost?
Space Empires: Starfury is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Space Empires: Starfury?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Empires: Starfury are Galaxor, Swarm Queen, IFO.
Who developed Space Empires: Starfury?
Space Empires: Starfury was developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Space Empires: Starfury.

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